EarthWorks Geospatial Catalog

Atlantic Canadian Provinces

Description

This datalayer represents the general boundaries of the eastern Canadian provinces, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife GIS program obtained the dataset from Environment Canada's GIS office. The layer was projected to the Massachusetts State Plane Mainland coordinate system, NAD83 datum, units meters, for use with all other MassGIS data.
The layer and coverage are both named ATLNPROV, stored in the NE library. The layer is named ATLNPROV_POLY in ArcSDE.
Please note that the layers are general in nature and are distributed only for small-scale plotting purposes.